The Making of an Avant Garde

The Making of an Avant Garde: The Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies 1967-1984A documentary written, produced, and directed by Diana Agrest

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This film screening is organized by The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union and co-sponsored by The Architectural League.

A screening of The Making of an Avant Garde: The Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies 1967-1984.

The Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, founded in 1967 with close ties to The Museum of Modern Art, made New York the global center for architectural debate and redefined architectural discourse in the United States. A place of immense energy and effervescence, its founders and participants were young and hardly known at the time but would ultimately shape architectural practice and theory for decades. Diana Agrest’s film documents and explores the Institute’s fertile beginnings and enduring significance as a locus for the avant-garde. The film features Mark Wigley, Peter Eisenman, Diana Agrest, Charles Gwathmey, Mario Gandelsonas, Richard Meier, Kenneth Frampton, Barbara Jakobson, Frank Gehry, Anthony Vidler, Deborah Berke, Rem Koolhaas, Stan Allen, Suzanne Stephens, Bernard Tschumi, Joan Ockman, among others.

Time & Place

Wednesday, November 13, 2013
7:00 p.m.
The Great Hall
The Cooper Union
7 East 7th Street

Tickets

This event is free and open to all. Reservations neither needed nor accepted.

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